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<p>Number 1 was Harvey Mudd and #2 was tied between Princeton and Dartmouth.
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<p>They also give salary reports for various majors.</p>
<p>So my son graduated from one of the top schools in one of the top majors in Payscale’s survey, yet he is earning so much less than the “average.” So much depends on personality (ambition) and ones location (and willingness or effort to relocate).</p>
<p>Should not have posted this on a Saturday night.</p>
<p>How are the salary numbers reported? Are they from the school or are they just based on the respondents of the survey PayScale has?</p>
<p>Because I’m just wondering how Colorado School Of Mines is #1 for state schools.</p>
<p>And in Massachusetts, it goes (on the PayScale report)
<p>You’d have to be an idiot to think Lowell is better than Amherst.</p>
<p>hehe–last night was Fri. not Sat. I don’t have a paid job in the summer, so I lose track of days , dates, etc.</p>
<p>Not sure of why no interest in this thread. Maybe I should ask a question. </p>
<p>Would you encourage your kid to attend one of these schools, or choose a major, based on these studies?</p>
<p>Payscale did very shoddy work, failing to control for field of study and cost of living. It’s also entirely self-reported.</p>
<p>Mines does well because they educate almost entirely engineers and track heavily into the high-paying resource extraction industry.</p>
<p>I agree with previous poster. </p>
<p>The reported pay needs to be normalized for cost of living to account for pay differences across various cities & regions. Otherwise, it is easy to be misled by apparent big differences between college graduates working in major cities in Northeast/west coast Vs. other low cost areas.</p>
<p>No link= not many comments.</p>
<p>[Top</a> US Colleges ? Graduate Salary Statistics](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/top-us-colleges-graduate-salary-statistics.asp]Top”>http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/top-us-colleges-graduate-salary-statistics.asp)</p>
<p>[Highest</a> paying college degrees and schools - Jul. 22, 2010](<a href=“http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/22/pf/college/highest_paying_college_majors/]Highest”>Highest paying college degrees and schools - Jul. 22, 2010)</p>
<p>Here are some.</p>
<p>Well, my son graduated from one of these top 5 schools. His first job had terrific salary, but then he went back to research. He’ll be earning $28,000 for next 5 years. That means his peers will be earning a LOT. Well, they have earned it, and I’m sure they will be terrific workers.</p>
<p>pierre0913, not saying the ranking quoted is particularly valid overall, but Lowell has a well respected engineering program in the Boston area. Many local employers look favorably on hiring their graduates, my employer included. These are engineering positions that pay very well. </p>
<p>(My S was accepted to both, is attending Amherst)</p>
<p>Lowell has a well respected engineering program in Massachusetts but in the UMass system, I don’t think anybody will be rating Lowell ahead of Amherst.</p>
<p>Ha ha! I assume this does not do much to average in all of the BA degrees or the now unemployed wall street hirees/firees of the last five years? S1 just graduated scl from P and he’s making exactly $1000 more than I was making when I left work to have him! And he’s in NYC and I was in a relatively small southern city. But we let him follow his passion and choose his major without regard to earnings potential (of course that was when a degree from Princeton pretty much guaranteed you a job on wall street until Lehman Bros started the dominos falling…). I’m just thrilled he has a job that (barely) covers his living expenses; so many of his friends are still pounding the pavement and are willing to take almost anything, if only it were offered.</p>
<p>I am tired and can’t think today–what is scl?</p>
<p>Summa Cum Laude?</p>
<p>Yes, of course. I was trying to figure out a major that was scl.</p>